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2nd Joel Silver Interview NINJA ASSASSIN. Plus Info on Dark Castle Projects, Remakes, SHERLOCK HOLMES, More
by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Posted:November 24th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
http://www.collider.com/2009/11/24/2nd-joel-silver-interview-ninja-assassin-plus-info-on-dark-castle-projects-remakes-sherlock-holmes-more/
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Well, this is probably the first Ninja movie weve seen in at least 20 years, what are the things about Ninja legends that appeal to you and will appeal to audiences?
Silver: Look, we wanted to make a Martial arts movie. Thats what we wanted to do. I mean, when I made my deal
when I put the deal together for Dark Castle which is a self-funded entity which distributes through Warner Brothers, I was talking to an executive at Warners. He said what you really ought to do is you ought to develop a new Martial arts star. He said weve never been able to do that. I mean thats not what we do. And, you know, they have had a history of having very successful movies with Martial arts stars. I mean back to Bruce Lee and Steven Segal and Jet Li and theyve made a lot of Martial arts movies with kind of personalities who the audience accepted who could do that kind of activity. And he said if you can find one, it can be great. And when we met Rain and we saw what he could do in Speed Racer we thought heres a guy. So we actually designed Ninja Assassin around him to make it for him. So that was the intention-to build a Martial arts star. And I think we did. I think if the audience agrees with us and if they feel that they accept him as this guy, I think he can make a lot of movies.
But Rain is a Korean and Ninja is Japanese, Im Japanese so when I saw this movie and they cast Rain and hes Korean. Hollywood has a trend of taking a Japanese character and people cast a Japanese actor and Japanese/American actor, but why do you guys cast a Korean?
Silver: Well, we made a point of saying it was an orphanage that these people were taken from all over Asia and he wasnt necessarily Japanese. It just was a
Martial arts tends to be a Chinese
most of the big Martial arts stars that Im aware of
its the Kung Fu is a Chinese esthetic. When we did The Matrix I mean we were combining kind of Japanese animation, which was a style with Chinese martial arts, I mean it kind of is as an Asian influence but there are movies, I mean, that are Hollywood movies. I mean, Jet Li is really a Chinese martial artist, but he worked in American movies. But I dont think that we are confining ourself to just a Japanese style. I mean, this is a movie that has Asian influence, but its a movie for the whole world. Its a movie designed to attract a world audience.
Do you think there is a Chinese maybe actor that could be very handsome and tall you could get a Chinese or is it just because of Rain that you think that he is actually right for the character?
Silver: Well he had a tremendous athletic ability to be able to do these kind of
look Steven Segal is neither, you know? I mean, he was just very good at what he did. But, you know, I think that Rain had great sense of this kind of style of fighting and acrobatics and because of his dance experience he was able to do unbelievable feats and a lot of this was not involving wire-work either. I mean, there is wire-work in the movie, but when we did The Matrix I mean, all of them-Keanu and Carrie Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving and Laurence Fishburne, I mean there was a lot of really serious wire-work where they were in harnesses a lot. And we tried to make this movie a different kind of martial arts, much more rooted in being attached to the Earth so much. Its not so much flying as it is kind of athletic ability. And I think that he has that ability. And it wasnt as if we were, you know I mean, and this movie most of the stunt people-the 2 guys who did the design work-Chad and Dave-were American guys who had worked with us and with Woo Ping and all the guys on the other movies and they had understood the process of staging and creating these fights. So it was kind of an international movie more or less.
Was there ever a longer cut than 92 minutes?
I think it went through a few versions until we got where we got it, but I think the movie works at this length. It feels good and its the right length of the movie.
Can you talk about the fact that, we were discussing before at the roundtable, that the movie might make its whole budget back just in Japan or in Asia. Can you talk about what you guys are doing in Asia to promote the movie?
Silver: Well, I mean, its a world-wide marketing situation. Were marketing it everywhere. I mean, weve got a huge
we had some big commercial work in Seoul and we did
I dont think theyve done a big Japan tour yet, but were talking about it. We heard that they might want to do a big premiere in Hong Kong next week. But I mean, primarily were concentrating now on the U.S. because thats where its going, you know, thats the first place its opening. But there has been
he did some promotional work in Canada and the east coast. So I mean, were just trying to roll this out with what makes the most sense. Its a tough time. Theres a lot of movies that are opening now so were trying to get it
but its a good date. Its a good time to open the movie, I think. I think once every person on the planet sees New Moon and theres nobody left who hasnt see it, then I think theyll be able to go see Ninja.
But isnt it good for the entire industry when a movie does that well because it gets people into the theatre and then maybe they go see something else, or how does that work?
Silver: Thats a rule of thumb. I mean, I think that would be nice. I mean, that would be good but this weekend this movie Blind Side did great, too. So people are going to the movies now, which is fantastic.
Following up on a previous question, so you didnt look for any Japanese actor to play this character and Rain is first and lets build Ninja around him.
Silver: Well, when we realized we felt Rain could do this, we decided to design and develop a movie for him. And we always wanted to make a Ninja movie, so it made sense to just make this and we crafted a situation where he didnt have to be Japanese and show
.Krashugi is Japanese so I mean it was just
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As a producer, because Rain has kind of big fan-base in Asia so thats why he was cast, okay
Silver: No because he was in
Speed Racer didnt do very well in Asia either so I mean I think he has a fan-base but you have to make the right movie. Nobody goes to see anything really just because of the people that are in it. They have to want to see the movie. So I hope that he has a fan-base will help but I hope that we made a good movie so that the movie will attract an audience.
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